Oracle isn’t the only cloud service provider working toward data sovereignty solutions.
Microsoft is making progress on an industry vertical for government and public sector customers it hopes to deploy later this year, and Google Cloud introduced a digital sovereignty tool as part of its sovereign cloud strategy in March.
The Oracle announcement comes on the heels of the European Data Protection Board’s April decision to levy $1.3 billion in fines against Facebook parent company Meta for GDPR data transfer violations. The launch of the EU-based data centers signals another modest win for a company in an ongoing battle for relevance in a market dominated by hyperscalers AWS, Azure and GCP.
